Romanization of Belarusian - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Romanization or Latinization of Belarusian is any system for transliterating written Belarusian

Belarusian language

The Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...

from the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

to the Latin

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

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Some of the standard systems for romanizing Belarusian:

BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian
BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian
The BGN/PCGN romanization system for Belarusian is a method for romanization of Cyrillic Belarusian texts, that is, their transliteration into the Latin alphabet....

, 1979 (United States Board on Geographic Names
United States Board on Geographic Names
The United States Board on Geographic Names is a United States federal body whose purpose is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic names throughout the U.S. government.-Overview:...

and Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use
The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names is an independent inter-departmental body established in 1919. Its function is to establish standard names for places outside the UK, for the use of the British government....

), which is the USA and Great Britain prevailing system for romanising of geographical information
Scientific transliteration
Scientific transliteration
Scientific transliteration, variously called academic, linguistic, or scholarly transliteration, is an international system for transliteration of text from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet...

, or the International Scholarly System for linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
ALA-LC romanization
ALA-LC Romanization
ALA-LC is a set of standards for romanization, or the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin alphabet. The initials stand for American Library Association - Library of Congress....

, 1997 (American Library Association and Library of Congress)
ISO 9
ISO 9
The international standard ISO 9 establishes a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of many Slavic and some non-Slavic languages....

:1995, which is also Belarusian state standard GOST 7.79–2000 for non-geographical information
Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script
Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script
Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script is an officially adopted method of Romanisation of the Belarusian Cyrillic text in geographical names. It was adopted by the decree of the State Committee on land resources, geodetics and cartography . The...

, which is Belarusian state standard for geographical information, adopted by State Committee on land resources, geodetics and cartography of Belarus, 2000 and recommended for use by the Working Group on Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN). It was significantly revised in 2007.

See also: Belarusian Latin alphabet

Belarusian Latin alphabet

The Belarusian Latin alphabet or Łacinka is the common name of the several historical alphabets to render the Belarusian text in Latin script.-Use:...

style="font-weight:bold;" | Comparative table of some standard romanisations of the Belarusian letters
Cyrillic	Scholarly	ALA-LC	BGN/PCGN	ISO 9	National 2000
А а	a	a	a	a	a
Б б	b	b	b	b	b
В в	v	v	v	v	v
Г г	h	h	h	g	h
Ґ ґ	g	g	g	g̀	–
Д д	d	d	d	d	d
Дж дж	dž	dz͡h	dzh	dž	dž
Дз дз	dz	dz	dz	dz	dz
Е е	e	e	ye	e	ie, je
Ё ё	ë	i͡o	yo	ë	io, jo
Ж ж	ž	z͡h	zh	ž	ž
З з	z	z	z	z	z
І і	i	i	i	ì	i
Й й	j	ĭ	y	j	j
К к	k	k	k	k	k
Л л	l	l	l	l	l
М м	m	m	m	m	m
Н н	n	n	n	n	n
О о	o	o	o	o	o
П п	p	p	p	p	p
Р р	r	r	r	r	r
С с	s	s	s	s	s
Т т	t	t	t	t	t
У у	u	u	u	u	u
Ў ў	ŭ (w)	ŭ	w	ǔ	ú
Ф ф	f	f	f	f	f
Х х	x (ch)	kh	kh	h	ch
Ц ц	c	ts	ts	c	c
Ч ч	č	ch	ch	č	č
Ш ш	š	sh	sh	š	š
’	–	-	′′	’	–
Ы ы	y	y	y	y	y
Ь ь	′	′	′	′	’
Э э	è	ė	e	è	e
Ю ю	ju	i͡u	yu	û	iu, ju
Я я	ja	i͡a	ya	â	ia, ja

Examples

Cyrillic	Беларусь Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...	Лукашэнка Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been serving as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has come to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line...	Магілёў	сям’я Family In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...
Łacinka	Biełaruś	Łukašenka	Mahiloǔ	siamja
BGN/PCGN	Byelarus′	Lukashenka	Mahilyow	syam’’ya
Scholarly	Belarus′	Lukašènka	Mahilëŭ	sjamja
ALA-LC	Belarus′	Lukashėnka	Mahili͡oŭ	si͡ami͡a
ISO 9	Belarus′	Lukašènka	Magìlëǔ	sâm’â
National 2000	Bielarus’	Lukašenka	Mahilioú	siamja
National 2007	Bielaruś	Lukašenka	Mahilioŭ	siamja